Well Read Column by Robert Weibezahl

William Boyd has a thing for outsiders, be it the genteel Englishman adrift among rednecks in the American South in Stars and Bars, the young woman in self-imposed African exile in Brazzaville Beach or the Russian recruited as a British spy in the Costa Award-winner Restless. In his new novel, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Boyd has crafted a persuasive story about a singular kind of outsider, a man...